Dig Deeper

Only the two of us this morning, and wow was I tired. Like the first time around, when you’re first able to keep doing something not knowing where the energy’s coming from, is a good feeling; it shows what you’re actually capable of, even if you’re not aware of it.                                                                                        Got to the push-up jacks and I was still doing them, despite not having a clue how!

** Yes I know there are 2 days missing (excluding the Rest Day [7b]) but I thought it better to carry on with my friends instead of falling completely out of sync with them, so I’ll catch up on those days either by doing an evening workout as well, or doing them during my rest days.

What’s brilliant about doing group workouts is that you can’t pause the workout to catch your breath. That’s what I do a lot; since I don’t want the workout to carry on without me, I’ll pause it until I’m ready to go again. But in a group setting, that doesn’t happen. What this meant was, yes, I started into some sets a little later, but I kept my heart rate up and it meant the workout actually finished on time, instead of 5 minutes later with all the pauses I would have given myself!

I’m expecting a food delivery between 2-3pm, with a lot of stuff (I’d say 90%) based around the Insanity food plan, now it’s just getting the energy to make it!

First day of a group workout. I didn’t remember any of this workout from last time, probably because it’s not as scaring as the rest of them!

Didn’t get a chance to eat anything before the workout today, so my legs were shaking like crazy, but made sure to eat breakfast before I left for work this morning. 

Definitely think I prefer morning workouts to my middle-of-the-night ones back in 2014. Starting the day with one really helps wake you up, and since I have so few uni classes a week it means I can afford to have a nap in the late afternoon / early evening and still sleep at a decent time. 

I skipped the morning workout at 8am today, I woke up at 7.45 and my hamstrings were completely seized up, so i rolled back over and went back to sleep. 

Just finished today’s workout at 9.15pm. I forgot about the globe jumps. Seriously hate them ahaha. Def not as hard as day 2 either, seemed to go a lot quicker as well!

The upside of doing it alone is I can strip down to a sports bra and socks in the privacy of my own room, even one layer of clothes gets way to warm for me, but training with 2 girls and 2 boys means the clothes will have to stay on!

Well, that was difficult!

If you’ve read through my older posts, you’ll see I have this issue where my neck clicks when I’m jumping up and down. It’s not painful, just annoying and a tiny bit uncomfortable. 

On to the PCC, I had to stop a good few times, but I then reasoned with myself that it’s better to do it much slower than the video than to just miss 2 turns so I can keep in time. 

the deep stretch with the arm lifted really worked my shoulders, was quite difficult to try and get my arm going straight up 

Switch Kicks:86 Power Jacks: 50 Power Knees: 86 Power Jumps: 31 Globe Jumps: 10 Suicide Jumps: 14 Push-Up Jacks: 15 Oblique Plank: 54

I’M SO SWEATY

Honestly, the average student would be thrilled with the heating my accommodation gets, but even with the radiator off and the window open wide I’m warm af

I’m also pretty wheezy; I’ve been on and off inhalers the past few years... Was told I have mild sports asthma which I took as a polite way of saying unfit, but there is a history of asthma/COPD in my family. I have an inhaler here with me just in case, but I didn’t want to use it during this unless I was literally struggling to breath. 

So here we are again, starting over again with Shaun T. I’m currently half way through my second year at uni, and having made some friends at my current accommodation, we discovered we’d all done insanity before!

Now we’re gonna do it again, and with peer motivation I think it’ll be much easier. I have to do my fit test tonight, but since we all have different timetables and we’re all studying different courses, our workouts will be at 8am in the campus gym 😥

Also, being a uni student, I’m in a perpetual state of being broke. I’m not going to be able to stick to a strict diet like a did the (very) first time around since I was still living at home and therefore got all my food bought for me. I don’t want to buy a lot of food for half of it to go to waste. I guess it’s time to buy a food diary and make (even more) use of the power of the freezer!

I’ll be tagging every workout in the same fashion (the day, the week, the exercise type, but as ___b so as to distinguish the years so the tags don’t get complicated!  

So I missed a day because I was up at the caravan without my laptop and internet for two whole days.

The pace I'm going at, I'll be lucky to finish before christmas! 

Watching the time left on the video compared to how much I had already done just made me really agitated. I knew I would eventually complete it as the line was moving (if slowly), but again I thought about just turning it off. It could be that I'm just getting back into the swing of things or that it's an unfamiliar workout. 

???

Well I thought I was going to die.

If you look back you'll see what I learnt from missing workouts and how it pays off to get them done. Obviously I had a pretty good excuse for putting mine back but god do you feel the tiredness when you star up again...

About half way through I felt that tired my eyes started closing, and there was a lot more cursing at Shaun T than per usual. I pretty much refused to do the Level 1 drills but I'll blame that on my grumpiness from jetlag.

The workout seemed to last forever today and there were about 3 times where I contemplated turning it off; the thoughts of "There's no point in carrying on, sure you ate crap for two weeks on holiday there's no way you'll ever tone up or loose weight." 

Optimistic, right?

So I’m now in my hotel room in Dublin for the night. I had another Pot Noodle, but it was because I wasn’t spending €12.50 for a chicken stir fry!

So glad I’m up to date again with my calendar again, but now I’ve a workout to do after a 7 hour and 2 hour flight (joy) One thing I’ll be avoiding is the plane food, I never could stand it but last year I did try it and - just… never again But now I’m tired so I’m away to bed for a 6.30am start!

Every time I do this workout, I get more and more irrationally annoyed when Shaun says there's one more set of basketball sets; and then there's two more. What's worse is every time, I fall for it; even for a second I have hope that it's near over but then of course I remember and just groan as I do yet another set of ski abs. 

I tried not to take water except during the breaks, but now I deem it acceptable if one of the others is getting a drink; if they can take a break, so can I. 

Also, moving up and down a lot is not good if your nose is running because of hayfever...

There's about 8 minutes left of the workout now as I'm writing this because it keeps buffering so I'm leaving it to load (sweet, sweet breaks) and fyi earlier I could smell bacon from the kitchen, now all I can smell is burnt toast...

Had to basically not do any of the jumps in the warm up as I'm in the attic and people are asleep below me. The Pot Noodle was great by the way. 

Doing all those things in the c-position when I'm on my left leg makes something pop somewhere deep in my hip. It's not sore or anything but I can feel it each time and it's just a bit weird. My lower back still hurts a bit doing plank work but now the pain goes away the second I finish so that's good.

This workout seemed really short today?? But that meant it was over quick which I'm glad of! The shaking has stopped all together with this workout but I noticed today I'm not doing the deep lunges right; I can't keep my knee behind my toe as far as they do and when I try, I fall backwards ugh more practise needed then...

I was finally able to pick up the pace in Level 1 drills. I was nearly touching the floor in the pushups and (using ever last bit of strength), straightened out my arms again and I was like "??? Body what? How??"

So yes getting a little, tiny bit stronger which is a very clear improvement which means I get to eat something I haven't eaten in about 4 weeks... Pot Noodle